Friday, August 17, 2012

When we started preparing for the Olympics last year, we prioritized two things: giving you a front-row experience, and serving you video at the best quality possible. You responded in a huge way:

Around the world

Giving more people access to watch live and recorded events was key. Across the US and 64 countries in Africa and Asia you watched 231 million total streams. Of those, 72 million total streams came from IOC YouTube Channel.

At peak, YouTube delivered video for more than half a million livestreams at the same time. That’s 5X the capacity of Wembley Stadium.

Live video looked better than ever before, with a 7X improvement in quality based on low buffering and high frame rates.

In the U.S.

We powered online coverage for NBCOlympics.com, delivering more than 159 million total streams.

Through NBC’s native apps, 37 percent of views came from mobile devices, and more than half were in HD.